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Personal Information about Harry |
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Prior to being a Realtor, Harry spent 25 years working for Hewlett-Packard both as software engineer and manager. For the last five years with HP, he was a computer division executive and was challenged with the opportunity to change the organization from being internally engineering focused to externally customer focused. These changes led the way for his division's receiving the company's highest recognition award - the President's Quality Award for high customer
satisfaction and overall division results.
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Harry has a degree in Business Administration from
a small university in Washington DC. He continued his management skills with
numerous business courses during his 25-year career at Hewlett-Packard. Not
ready to retire, he obtained his real estate license and continued his real
estate education by completing classes in real estate principles, Property
Management and California Real Estate Finance. He also attends seminars and
enrolls in on-going courses to remain current with changing real estate
practices and law. Harry has brought his engineering attention to detail, his
business and negotiation skills from Hewlett-Packard together with his real
estate knowledge to create an outstanding positive experience for you as his
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Harry believes in contributing to society and our
human well being by always striving to improve the quality of life of all
people with whom he comes in contact. He is committed to protect fundamental
human rights and to respect the diversity of all cultures. He will also be
honest and trustworthy. Harry believes that Honesty is an essential component
of Trust, and he strives for that with all of his clients. He says that
without trust people cannot function effectively. He will not make deliberate
false or deceptive claims about any sales situation, but will instead provide
full disclosure of all pertinent facts related to the transaction.
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Harry is a member of the National Association of
Realtors, the California Association of Realtors, the California Desert
Association of Reactors, the Palm Springs Chamber of Commerce and the
Riverside county Better Business Bureau. He is also a member of the
Hewlett-Packard retirees association, giving him access to a wealth of
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Personal Background
I am originally from Washington DC and
moved to northern California in 1975 after joining Hewlett-Packard's
commercial computer group. Four years prior to my retirement from HP, I and 11
other gay and lesbian employees performed a "Readers Theater" before the
president and his executive committee, relating personal experiences of being
gay in Hewlett-Packard. At the time, I was a General Manager and the highest
openly gay manager in the company. This resulted in Hewlett-Packard's being
the first fortune 500 company to extend domestic partner benefits to its
employees 3 months later. I took an early retirement from Hewlett-Packard in
2000 and moved to Palm Springs. Not wishing to fully retire, I went back
to school and obtained my Real Estate license in 2002. I live with my partner, Denny, of 27
years, and in 2003, my brother Bill and his wife Gay moved close to Palm
Springs from Maryland. We now all get together regularly enjoying friends and
family in our desert paradise. It has been fun exploring the secrets of the
desert area and reconnecting with my “little” brother after 30 years of living
three thousand miles apart. |
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